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The Bay Boys

1998 Television
  • Documentary

In this documentary, presenter, poet and lifelong surfer Gary McCormick reunites the 'Bay Boys'— a gang of Pākehā and Māori surfing buddies who grew up in Titahi Bay and often had "seawater dripping out of their noses". In the early 1960s Porirua was a rapidly growing city with 2,700 state houses and a young population. It also became a city of two halves; in the late 1960s gangs began recruiting in more deprived areas of Porirua East. McCormick meets up with friend George Harris, a "snappy dresser" and hard man who broke a cycle of domestic abuse and pain when he became a husband and a father.

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